Tanisha Lokwani Drama blog year 10-11

16th April 2018 Set Design Set design are traditionally drawn in a bird eye's view. They can be drawn in pencil or online on softwares. To design a set, we need to use the text and the directors vision. we need to take in account the location of the audience and see if props block the views of the audience.  All directions about design should be based on the text if there is mentioned information in the playbook. The director gets to interpret the text to create a vision that then becomes the set. He then meets with the other designers and discusses the vision to make it come to life. Directors could also use metaphors on stage. For example, if there are bookshelves falling on top of each other. It could mean the destruction of education or knowledge Scenic Design- - The director must take into account what the place looked like at the time. What forces of weather may have acted on it? What was happening historically at the time? Level of technology? Example, a gove...

What is a costume? Costume includes all clothing, underclothing, hairdressing, makeup and accessories, such as hats, scarves, fans, canes, umbrellas and jewelry, worn or carried by each character in a production. The design and appearance of costumes are the province of the costume designer. Normally, there is a team of people that does costume design in a production. There are different costume designs. -: Character- Dictated by specific information in the scropt Decorative- Dictated by the setting and stage. Information provided by clothes Clothes can also be visible clues to the wearers emotional state. For example, the cagebirds production that the year tens did. In addition to psychological clues, clothing can provide a variety of objective information about a person, - Historical period- the shape and silhouette of garments can provide clear indications of their historical period. - Age- In any period, the color style and fit of clothes provide information about the a...

1) How do you imagine the character distribution will work , or how do you see each of the class having a role to play? Explain. - As discussed in class, the 6 characters with the mental issues are being given to the people most suited in the batch according to the teacher's judgement. The rest of the people will also be given the roles. One of them will be mistress and another will be the wild one. The others will be thoughts of the characters. Each thought and character is equally important and will have almost the same amount of lines . 2) How do you envision the costumes we will use as a cast? Explain your ideas. - In the videos that we saw in class, the people that were being controlled were wearing all white while the people controlling were wearing all black. We could use this as the characters could be in white and the thoughts could be black. This shows that the thoughts are sort of controlling the characters. Other than this the characters would use props to match ...

Drama Assessment - Explorative Strategy Video: In class, we were asked to create a piece that used an explorative strategy. We decided to use two - : Thought tracking : We only used thought tracking for the Maria characters because we wanted to show how the rich 'suffer' and how the poor people of the favelas really do suffer because without connections or family, people don't have anywhere to go. Through thought tracking we were able to emphasize how the favelas are overshadowed by the rich people and how the rich have never known how the poor feel because they are busy worrying about something that is probably a first world problem. For example, not being able to travel with their parents. Meanwhile, the poorer person does not have any parents because they got involved with drug lords which is very common in the favelas. We can see a lot of this in Rio de Janeiro as we saw in the pictures as a class. The rich are treated like royalty and the poor are treat...

1) Who was Sandro Rosa? Sandro Rosa do Nascimento was a struggling man who took to crime and one day boarded the public bus 174 on June 12th, 2000, in Jardim Botanico, Rio de Janeiro with the intention of robbing the passengers. The situation escalated fast when the bus driver escaped and the vehicle was blocked by a passing by military police car. TV crews, civillians and more officers flocked to the scene as Sandro Rosa took the passengers hostage. He demanded weapons and a new driver. If his demands weren't sated threatened to kill all of the passengers by 6 PM, he however had no intention of doing so. By 6 he faked shooting one of the passengers Janaina Lopes Neves and unsuccessfully attempted to exit the bus at 7. A police officer opened fire on Sandro who in panic accidentally killed the hostage along with the officer who missed his target. The whole event was aired live through the country. Sandro died while being taken to custody by the police.  2)  Why did he do ...